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Re: Moving lift to put gear on peg easier

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Originally Posted by rich2202 View Post
I initially thought about needing Pilot interaction to help get the gear from the robot but....

There are 2 pilots, and 3 gear stations. During autonomous, all 3 robots will be dropping off gears. Requiring 2 pilots to manage 3 robots is asking for failure.

Safest option is to be the robot that does not require Pilot interaction.
This applies mostly if you plan to move again after your autonomous drop off. You can't actually score the auton points without the pilots getting all three gears, so unless all 3 robots are doing something afterward (which is unlikely for a number of reasons including the benefit of staggered shooting), no one is taking a loss. This is even less likely in teleop, both because the robots will get and will likely want to be staggered and because the last thing you want to do is leave an unattended gear for a defender to hit (if I were a good defender in teleop, I might make a habit of driving in there when a gear robot leaves just for good measure if this became a common practice).

Also consider for your own team's design that a pilot looking down at the peg and gear could well know with more certainty and speed that it's ready to lift before the robot/driver does. Because the other last thing you want to do is accidentally drop the gear either because you can't tell from that distance or because the pilot--trying to go as fast as possible and who may not be on your team--thinks they should raise the peg on you. In overall terms of safety against dropping the gear, it is by far safer to have the guy lifting it up take it rather than the guy dropping it. Make it easy for them.

There are ways to mitigate all of these of course, and it depends on what level you're playing at. But for most teams, think I like my general philosophy in this situation: minimize moving parts and their movers, and the one who does move should be the one advancing the situation (taking possession of the gear, so the pilot). It's like 2012 bridge balancing: one guy gets it in place, the other one finishes, so both are in agreement. Don't create a situation in which you want both moving during the same "step"--something will fall.

And now we wait for the Q&A.
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